More randomness...

1. First thing you wash in the shower? My Face

2. What color is your favorite hoodie?Yellow

3. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? Sure will

4. Do you plan outfits every day?No I plan them all out on Saturday or Sunday for the week

5. How are you feeling RIGHT now? Like I am going to throw-up, I hate antibiotics

6. What’s the closest thing to you that's red?My phone

7. Tell me about the last dream you remember having? Last night I dreamt we were at my Brother-in-Laws having dinner with my husbands family and his wife was mad and had locked herself in the bathroom until I left.
8. Did you meet anybody new today? I meet new people everyday.

9. What are you craving right now?Acorn Squash

10. Do you floss? Obsessively

11. What comes to mind when I say cabbage? Corn Beef

12. Are you emotional? I can be.

13. Have you ever counted to 1,000? No, Why???

14. Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it? Depends on the form

15. Do you like your hair? Yes, I just colored it and I love it

16. Do you like yourself? No, I love myself

17. Would you go out to eat with George Bush? Oh, I would love to. I have many a things I would love to chat with old George about. But I would want Jr. there as well.

18. What are you listening to right now?Nothing

19. Are your parents strict? I do not think my mother new the meaning.

20. Would you go sky diving?Heck yes!!! That is where I am headed on my 40th birthday.
21. Do you like cottage cheese?Love it. I can only eat it in secret though. It makes Eric dry heave.

22. Have you ever met a celebrity?Yes, I met Della Reese at the airport. She is an amazing women. I met Robert Redford at Sundance. He has had way to much sun and I met Marie Osmond when I worked at best and my mom always said if I can't say anything nice...

23. Do you rent movies often? Never, I don;t ever watch them when I do.

24. Is there anything sparkly in the room you're in?My glitter toes

25. How many countries have you visited? 6 ~Mexico, Germany, France, Spain, Switzerland, Canada

26. Have you made a prank phone call? When I was a teenager we would make them all the time.

27. Ever been on a train? Does the one at the Zoo count? Just kidding, yes I have been on several

28. Brown or white eggs? Doesn't matter

29. Do you have a cell-phone? 2~ one for work and a personal one

30. Do you use chap stick? Daily

31. Do you own a gun? No and never

32. Can you use chop sticks? Yes

33. Who are you going to be with tonight?My family at the gym

34. Are you too forgiving? No - I am not, this is a huge life trial for me!!!

35. Ever been in love? Yes

36. What is your best friend(s) doing tomorrow? Working

37. Ever have cream puffs? Yes, and they are amazing. The best ever are at La Caille

38. Last time you cried? Yesterday, while reading a friends blog

39. What was the last question you asked? Who just fell down the stairs?

40. Favorite time of the year? Fall

41. Do you have any tattoos? Nope. Almost, once but then came to my senses.

42. Are you sarcastic? To much

43. Have you ever seen The Butterfly Effect?Yes,and I am afraid I have seen the second one and the made for TV one.

44. Ever walked into a wall? Yes, when we first moved. It was a middle of the night bathroom trip and I forgot where I was.

45. Favorite color?Yellow

46. Have you ever slapped someone? Yes, a guy who had asked me out over and over again. I finally gave in and went on a group date with him, next dayI met his wife.

47. Is your hair curly?Yes

48. What was the last CD you bought?Kenny Chesney- Greatist Hits

49.Do looks matter?It depends on the situation.

50. Could you ever forgive a cheater?Yes, everyone needs to be forgiven.

51. Is your phone bill sky high? Not at all.

52. Do you like your life right now? I always like my life, sometimes i do not like the things hapining in my life though.

53. Do you sleep with the TV on? If I am taking a nap in my living room.

54. Can you handle the truth? Yes, it might take a minute but eventually.

55. Do you have good vision? No, I am blind with out corrective lenses

56. Do you hate or dislike more than 3 people? Hate never, dislike yes, but not the person just their actions

57. How often do you talk on the phone? Several times an hour during the day.

58. What is your favorite TV show? House

59. What are you wearing? PJ pants and one of my 5K t-shirts

60.What is your favorite animal?I love my dog. But my favorite is frogs

61. Where was your default picture taken at? The North Rim of the Grand Canyon

62. Can you hula hoop?Yes

63. Do you have a job?I do, working with people with disabilities.

64. What was the most recent thing you bought? Insurance (A story for another day)

65. Have you ever crawled through a window?Many times

Laugh at your self and you will never ceased to be amused

So I am at the gym this morning doing the usual workout. I had just finished my 30 minutes on the elliptical and was switching over to the treadmill. The gym was packed, (it always is this way until about the end of January, you know those resolutions(:)and there was only one treadmill open except that it had a jacket laying over the side. I hopped on anyway and looked at the guy next to me and asked if this was his jacket, of coarse I knew it was but wanted to give him a chance to move it before I did. He said, "Oh yes, sorry", gave me a somewhat nasty look and moved the jacket. He was a young guy, probably in his early 20's. He was what I consider to be the definition of a Mormon- Metro sexual, had his BYU t-shirt on, oddly tan for mid January, perfect white teeth, perfect hair, manicured nails. I am sure you know the type.

I started my workout when in walks Workout Barbie. Now this is the girl who comes to the gym in full hair and makeup. Matching outfit from head to toe, this includes the shoes to the fingernails, and lets not forget the IPOD that matches the outfit. ( Now my question with this is whether you buy IPODs to match each outfit or you buy outfits to match the IPOD) She perches herself in front of us on the stair-stepping machine. I look over and notice Mr. Metro checking her out. He probably is figuring out how to make his move to go ask her on a date.

So the workout continues, I am working out, Mr. Metro is working out, and Workout Barbie is working the Stair-stepper with all the passion of a slug. When all of the sudden Barbie's phone rings, she goes to grab it and falls off the Stair-stepper. She looks around to see who has seen this spectacle as all of the Muscle Heads rush to help her.

I looked over at Mr. Metro, I was surprised that he wasn't the first one to her aid. When I see that he is laughing. I was shocked because I was laughing inside, but also biting my tongue to keep from smiling. He looked at me, smiled, and said something. I took out my headphone and asked him what he said. He smiled again and said "I sure hope she didn't break a nail." This cracked me up because I was thinking the same thing. I turned to go put my headphone back on when I accidentaly grabbed the emergency stop cord and totally biffed it. I was so embarrassed but in my mind I visually was picturing Workout Barbie and started to uncontrollably laugh. Mr. Metro offered me his hand to get up and asked me if I was okay. I grabbed his hand and he started cracking up, I joined in as I looked down and noticed that I had broke a nail.

What to do with "the mood" . . .

So, like so many other people it seems, I have been in that after Christmas, tired and ornery all the time funk. Which is part of my reason for missing my Flashback Friday post yesterday. My mom always said if you can't say anything nice... I figured this applied to writing as well. I got thinking about why it is that I am in such a mood. What it is that is so exciting and luring about the holidays that it causes me to be in such a rut afterwords? I am happy to say I figured it out. I am the type of person that looks to the future. I always seem to have something big going on to plan for, focus on, and release nervous energy towards. I had not settled on what that was yet, everything seems so far away.

I was cleaning off a bookcase when I picked up this book. It hit me like a ton of bricks. This is just the little pick-up I needed. I would recommend that anyone interested read this book. I have read it several times and have always enjoyed it immensely. She has another book called Finding the Angel Within which I have purchased but not yet read.

Back to my pick me up. Several years ago I got it in my head that I was going to run the Maui Marathon the year I turn forty. The trainer that I work out with at the gym thought I needed to put in some steps to that goal and one of them is to start participating in 5K's. So after reading this book I found out that Pam Hansen has a Running with Angels- Run/Walking 5K every year. So last summer I called my best friend to see if she wanted to join me and she and I walked the 5K.

Now I am not the smallest of people but for my size I am probably more physically fit then people 2X smaller then me. I am an active person. I walk daily, go to the gym regularly, and am usually going from the time I wake up until I hit the bed at night ( I have too much nervous energy) So of coarse I thought 5K big deal I can do it no problem. But I didn't know there was such a difference between trails, treadmills and walking on the cement. I thought I was dying, that someone was stabbing me in my shins and that my torn hamstring was going to rip into pieces. But I did it, I thought about giving up but I didn't, Aneliese got me through it and she doesn't know this yet but she will get me through again. This time I am going to be a little more pro-active and start walking on the cement and streets more.

So my new focus - Saturday May 16th, 8:00am

Running with Angels

and of coarse, I will keep you posted (: